• Crypto critic Peter Schiff renewed calls of a ‘Bitcoin bubble’, stating that it was being understated with investors’ attention focused on the AI trade.

• Analyst Ted Pillows identified Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari’s post, in which she called for an AI pause to become a priority of the Democratic agenda, as one of the catalysts.

• Around $1.08 billion was liquidated in the last 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $954 million of the wipeout.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $76,000 in afternoon trade on Thursday amid the broader tech selloff on the equities side, triggering more than $1 billion in liquidations and dragging down crypto stocks.

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